CIVA preserves archives and collection pieces dedicated to Belgian actors of architecture and landscape in Belgium and abroad, such as Victor Bourgeois, René Pechère, Huib Hoste, Renaat Braem, Jules Buyssens, Victor Horta, Robert Puttemans, Paul Duvigneaud, Gaston, Maxime and Fernand Brunfaut. Funds gather plans, maps, models, vintage photographs, written archives, pieces of furniture and textiles, costumes, stage sets, audio and audio-visual archives. The collection includes the archives of the Department of Modern Architecture and the Department of Garden, Landscape and Urban Ecosystem.

CIVA’s collections are constituted of archives and various productions of the practice of architecture, landscape architecture and gardens, and of the reflexion on urban ecosystems in Belgium. They hold a major variety of supports: particularly important graphic archives (plans, drawings, sketches ...), written archives (correspondence, personal notes, site monitoring…), photographic documents, but also models, audio and audio-visual archives, furniture, wallpapers, fabrics, mainly from the 19th and the 20th century in Belgium. These collections result from the integration in 2016, within the institution, of the collections constituted by the Archives d’Architecture Moderne (AAM), Sint-Lukasarchief, the René Pechère Library and the Paul Duvigneaud Centre, and keep being enriched daily. They are accessible to researchers, students, professionals and individuals. They are also valorized through exhibitions, publications, studies and various animations realized by the CIVA as well as third parties. In January 2019, 4400 negatives coming from the Kessels funds were digitized and made available online through the ideesculture platform, where they serve as a witness of Belgian architecture and landscape between the 1920s and 1960s. In total, some 500 funds make CIVA the most important archival center of architecture and landscape architecture of Belgium.

Archives and collection items are accessible only by appointment. The list of funds is available online on the website. Inventories are also available upon request from the Archives Department.

Regulation of consultation Archives and collection items are accessible only by appointment. The list of funds is available online on the website. Inventories are also available upon request from the Archives Department. Readers wishing to consult documents must complete the form available online,...

Conditions and Regulations of Reproduction A reproduction request includes the order of visual material and / or the rights of reproduction of an image. The archive copying procedure can take up to four weeks. The archive copying procedure can take up to four weeks. Applications must therefore be...